Re: Perl package version numbers

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Dieter Baron wrote:
> : -p5-DateTime-TimeZone-0.6904
> : +p5-DateTime-TimeZone-0.77
> 
> : Is that "new" version number smaller or larger than the old
> : version number, according to our version numbering scheme?
> 
>   The new version is smaller, and should be padded: 0.7700

Right.

It would be nice if pkglint could detect this sort of problem.

--apb (Alan Barrett)